Horatio Alden Smith made the bulk of his fortune as the co-owner of the Smith and Wyman Sash and...
Twin Cities Area
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The first pavilion was built on the shore of Lake Como in St. Paul in 1894. The wooden pavilion was...
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Wilder Public Baths
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Saint Paul Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Gates of Stonebridge
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Robbinsdale Library
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Landmark Center In St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Minnesota Home School for Girls was established by the state legislature in 1907 as a...
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Early settler and local banker Edson Smith built this French Second Empire style home for his...
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Red Wing Iron Works
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The Almelund Creamery
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Lost Highway 61
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Green Lake Mounds
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Welcome To Old Wadena
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Enter Marlon Brando
District 48 School Near Delano
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Exploring Sandstone
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Historic Wasioja
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Endion School In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Little Falls Depot
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Hollywood Town Hall
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
State Theater In Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Welcome to Hanska
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Little Marais Inn
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moving Old Hibbing
Hanover Bridge
Welcome To Dotson
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Historic Franconia
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Le Sueur Theater
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Jordan Brewery Complex
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Endion Depot In Duluth
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Exploring Ottawa
Remembering Quadna Resort
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Duluth Homestead Project
Ruins of Sawyer School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Moderne New Ulm Library
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Milford Monument
Bend in the River Regional Park
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Old School In Wolverton
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Brewery In Preston
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Maple Hill Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Building whaleback ships was an essential industry in Superior, Wisconsin, for more than a decade...
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Watts Free Libary in Leonard, North Dakota, represents small community libraries built from...
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering Wisconsin Point
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Welcome to Heaton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Punished Woman’s Lake
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City